Plastic Bottles: Expensive, Wasteful & Just Plain Wrong
Plastic bottles: They pollute our oceans and the little water that they provide costs
almost 2000 times that of tap water. It is time that we put an end to this! Statistics show
that Americans buy over 500,000,000 bottles of water per week. That is enough to circle
the globe five times if you put the bottles end-to-end. It is not even funny how much junk
people are lured into buying. Plastic bottles should be banned in favour of better
options.
Pepsi’s Vice President has said publicly, “The biggest enemy is tap water”. How much
more wrong can he be? In taste tests, people actually chose tap water over bottled
water! At least until the bottled water industry released an ad that tap water is bad or
contaminated in some way. Then they tried to trick us into thinking that bottled water
comes from more clean sources than tap water. But guess where one third of bottled
water actually comes from. Yeah, you guessed it: THE TAP. Some of these deceptive
brands include Aquafina and Dasani.
What about the environmental impacts of bottled water? Even those few water bottles
being recycled (20%) are either being shipped to India to be chucked into huge piles of
other plastic waste, down cycled (turned into lower quality products, and then dumped
later), or thrown into an Indian family’s backyard! What is the outcome? Cities all around
the world are spending billions of dollars cleaning up the water bottles that we throw out!
So do not believe companies like Nestle when they tell you that bottled water is
environmentally friendly. They are just trying to keep making millions of dollars selling
you tap water inside plastic bottles.
Now that you understand the negative impacts of plastic containers, what are the
alternatives? The answer is, BottlesUp™. It is made of a thick glass and won’t break
easily from a fall off the chair or couch. It is also easier to clean than plastic and more
environmentally sound. The best part is, it does not contribute to our landfills! Some
additional benefits of BottlesUp are that, unlike some plastics, it does not leach
chemicals into whatever it holds. Also, it helps to both save our landfills from plastic and
reuse old glass, since it is made in a semi-automatic blowing process from 75% preconsumer recycled glass. They are also dishwasher safe, can be customized, and they
can be bought online.
What is the good news? If you make the smart choice to move from plastic to glass,
you are not the only one. Many restaurants have gone back to serving tap water to
customers. With refilled water containers becoming more popular, the plastic water
container industries who sell free tap water back to people at a premium are seeing
their profits go down. So join us in making the smart choice, support the ban on plastic
bottles and buy yourself a reusable glass bottle. Take back the tap!